The Work Of The Holy Spirit (J62)

The Holy Spirit dwells in the elect;
He reminds them of all that Jesus said;
Tells them of events they are to expect;
Teaches them truths where Jesus had not led!
He counsels them of righteous ways and wrong;
Supplies words to say to judges and kings;
Provides their needs required to get along;
Furnishes pow’r to succeed in righteous things!
The Spirit enters the hearts of those that’re lost
To convict them of guilt in acts of sin,
Warning them of coming judgment and cost,
Tugging at their consciences from within!
To the child of God the Spirit casts light
On Scripture’s dark places to read them right!

Scripture Quoted: John 16:12-14, 16 (NIV) Got Spirit?
“ ‘I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own’ he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you,’ “ … “ ‘In a little while you will not see me.’ “

Commentary on: John 16:1-16 (NIV)
Jesus here is continuing His Thursday evening talk with His eleven remaining apostles. Judas Iscariot departed earlier to go to the chief priest and guide a party of armed men to arrest Jesus. The little group is on their way to an olive grove called Gethsemane. In this Scripture Jesus is telling the disciples as much as they can handle in the brief time He has before He is taken away. He repeats His warning that the world will hate and persecute them because of His name.

He informs them that He is going to leave them to return to His Father in heaven. He perceives they are grieving over his leaving them, and He tells them they will be glad He goes, because He will send them the Holy Spirit, who will take His place and do a multitude of things for them. The Spirit is God, and equal in power to the other two persons of the Trinity. the Father, and the Son. He is able to multiply Himself, so that He can live inside each believer. He will be a counselor, guiding them in their new life, learning to live righteously; He is better than the believer’s conscience, because the conscience is influenced by worldly impressions and morals. An individual’s conscience is a part of his human nature; it will lead you into sin. The Holy Spirit will teach you a new way of living—God’s way. He will help you to understand Scripture, so that spiritual language will be comprehensible to you. He will teach you how to love others in an agape way; He will give you peace, patience, kindness, joy, gentleness, and self control.

The Spirit will also enter the hearts of non-believers, tugging at them to call for Jesus to come into their lives. The Bible describes His admonitions to both saved and lost as couched in a “still, small voice”. If either ignores Him, He will become quieter and quieter, until finally He is “quenched”. Anyone who ignores the still, small voice of the Holy Spirit does so at his peril.

“For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him will not die but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

“That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord’, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)